Here’s a message to Republican lawmakers who enable President Donald Trump and every American who still supports him: You own the deeply racist video he posted to his social media account in the late-night hours of Feb. 5.

Trump himself or one of his lackeys may have hit the send button on a video portraying former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes – debasing the office of the presidency for the umpteenth time – but it may as well have been sent by any or all who remain loyal to this disgrace of a man.

You don’t get to express allegiance to Trump and then casually step aside when something like this happens. You own it. It is what you are supporting, and it is what you have always supported. Spare me the pearl-clutching.

The roughly minute-long video clip is, of course, a mess of conspiratorial garbage about the........

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